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Even setting aside all of those things, the whole point of school is that you learn how to do shit; not pass it off to someone or something else to do for you.
If you are just gonna use AI to do your job, why should I hire you instead of using AI myself?
I went to school in the 1980s. That was the time that calculators were first used in class and there was a similar outcry about how children shouldn't be allowed to use them, that they should use mental arithmetic or even abacuses.
Sounds pretty ridiculous now, and I think this current problem will sound just as silly in 10 or 20 years.
lol I remember my teachers always saying "you won't always have a calculator on you" in the 90's and even then I had one of those calculator wrist watches from Casio.
And I still suck at math without one so they kinda had a point, they just didn't make it very well.
Hah! I had a calculator watch too - and I'm certain it got me my first girlfriend when I was 11!
You're right about that exact argument being used widely, I certainly was told I'd never have a calculator with me. Little did they know.